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What's particularly interesting about the campaign is that the Ukrainian fan club behind it -- you didn't even think for a second that there's no connection with their previous campaigns, did you? -- are using basic segmentation principles since the tax form keywords poisoning is attempting to hijack U.S traffic. Evasive practices are also in place through the usual http referrer check, which would only serve the scareware if the visitor is coming from Google.com, if not a 404 error message will appear.

Upon clicking on the link, the user is redirected through a centralized location responsible for managing the traffic from the thousands of subdomains/keywords used - honda-recycle .cn/go.php?id=2017&key=cbafb5cb2&p=1 - 83.133.123.113 Email: accabj@cn.accaglobal.com. Parked on the same IP are also related malware/scareware domains:

The people behind the campaign have also taken contingency planning in mind since the scareware domain portfolio is parked on five different IPs - no-spyware-thanks .com - 94.102.48.29; 94.102.51.26; 188.40.61.236; 83.133.126.155; 91.212.107.5 Email: Paul.Saydak@lovellis.com. The complete list: